Chapter 57 The Girl and the Golden Dragon
Upon closer inspection, the pull ring on the coffin was actually shaped like a dragon with its head and tail intertwined. Seeing that Bo Yi had tried several times but still couldn't open the coffin, Xiao Bai became anxious and lost patience.
There's definitely no signal underwater. Matt and the others won't be able to wait for them to come out. They'll definitely come looking for them eventually.
Two zombie kings plus a bunch of high-level zombies, and countless low-level zombies—if they really find this place, wouldn't they just be offering themselves up as free food?
He simply froze the entire coffin, hoping to accidentally seal the switch of the barrier.
After freezing, several minutes passed, but nothing changed. Instead, Bo Yiyan was shivering from the cold.
Xiao Bai quickly withdrew his ice-type ability, but then heard a "ding-dong" sound. He saw a golden bead that was held in the dragon's mouth roll down from the dragon-shaped pull ring.
It's probably because it was frozen too hard just now. Now that the ice has been recycled, it can't withstand the temperature change from cold to hot, so the bead fell out.
Bo Yiyan picked up the bead and put it back into the dragon's mouth. Fearing it wouldn't be securely set, he twisted it in a few times.
The next second, a loud "boom" was heard, and the lid of the coffin opened automatically.
The moment the coffin lid was opened, the scene inside stunned Xiaobai and Boyiyan.
There lay a human girl dressed in a bright red ancient wedding gown, her face looking so lifelike that it seemed she was not dead, but asleep.
Beside her, a golden five-clawed dragon wrapped its tail around her body, its massive head pressed against her cheek.
The scene looked very eerie. The human girl had obviously died first, and then the dragon wrapped its tail around her, trying to shrink its body into the coffin.
"Could it be that this dragon died for its master?" Bo Yi asked.
“What you said seems to make some sense, but since it was a suicide pact, they certainly wouldn’t want anyone to disturb their peaceful sleep. Why did the coffin lid open automatically after the bead fell out and was put back in?” Xiaobai asked.
The two looked at each other, neither able to answer the question.
"Never mind, no matter the reason, it's wrong to disturb the peaceful sleep of lovers." Bo said, and forcefully closed the coffin lid.
Although there were many burial items in the coffin, including many gems with residual energy, the two of them were both wealthy and had seen all kinds of treasures before, so they naturally wouldn't covet the burial items in the coffin.
The moment the coffin lid closed, a red phantom suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
The illusory figure was a man with silver eyes and hair, distinct features, a dignified and imposing presence, and a gentle and polite voice.
"Greetings to you two kindred spirits! You must have entered this nameless tomb chamber unintentionally and been trapped in this barrier."
I need your help, and then I'll show you how to leave.
"Are you that dragon? Why do you say we are destined to meet? Aren't you worried that we are tomb raiders?" Bo Yiyan asked.
“I was an egg abandoned by my parents. Ayao found me when I was very young, took me home and treated me like a treasure. She would put me in her quilt and sleep with me every day.”
Later I hatched, but in order not to attract attention, I had to disguise myself as an ordinary little golden snake.
Ayao secretly found a bamboo cage and kept me in her boudoir. I went out to find food by myself every day, trying not to cause her any trouble.
She also loved to whisper to me, unlike other girls who were afraid of my snake-like movements. That's how we became the closest of friends.
The inherited memories told me how to cultivate. With my abilities, I could have left her long ago and found a river or lake with abundant spiritual energy to cultivate, but I couldn't bear to leave Ayao.
When she turned fifteen, I sensed that a thousand-year-old spiritual fruit was about to ripen in a certain place, so I left her to snatch it.
Normally, we dragons have to wait until we are 500 years old to take human form, but I want to take human form sooner so that I can communicate with A Yao.
After much effort, they finally managed to snatch it and swallow it. Sure enough, it successfully transformed into human form, but this attracted the Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation.
Caught completely off guard, I was struck and seriously injured. It took me more than six months to finally recover.
When I returned to Ayao's house, she had already committed suicide by swallowing gold and had been dead for two whole days.
It turned out that when she went to the shop to deliver embroidery, she caught the eye of the local magistrate, who forced her to become his eighth concubine. She resolutely refused and committed suicide by swallowing gold.
I found a diary among her belongings, and it was filled with my writing.
After I left, she searched everywhere for me, and when she couldn't find me, she fell seriously ill.
Without my company, she had no one to confide in, so she wrote everything down in her diary.
She wrote in her diary more than once: If Ah Jin were a human, I would marry him and be happy for the rest of my life!
What a heartless fellow! Even if he grows up and goes to find another female snake to have babies, he should at least bring his snake wife and baby snakes back for me to see, so I can be at ease.
I hate myself for leaving her for so long, and I hate the county magistrate who drove her to her death even more.
I killed the county magistrate, knowing full well that killing a mortal would bring divine retribution and prevent me from ascending to heaven, but I have no regrets.
Without A-Yao, what's the point of my transformation? What's the point of my ascension?
I took Ayao's body away, left a sum of gold and silver for her parents, and then came here to build this tomb.
To preserve her body from decay, I found a spirit-storing array in the inheritance, but to keep this array running, a large number of spirit stones need to be added to the array core.
But this is the mortal realm, where can we find so many spirit stones?
So I used my own body as the core of the formation, because the bodies of our dragon race are inherently spiritual beings, full of spiritual energy.
Although I long to lie beside her in human form, for her sake, I can only accompany her in dragon form.
But I know that even my dragon body can only maintain this formation for five thousand years, so I left a mechanism on the coffin lid.
If tomb raiders accidentally stumbled upon the coffin and couldn't open the lid, they would inevitably try to open the pull ring, such as prying off the bead from the dragon's mouth.
But this was completely useless; it was still impossible to open the coffin lid.
My design is that after the bead falls, it will be re-inserted into the dragon's mouth and rotated three times to tighten it, ensuring it won't fall out again.
Only in this way can the mechanism be activated and the coffin lid opened.
However, once opened, if anyone touches the gems I left in the coffin, it will trigger a killing formation and take their life.
Only a true gentleman would leave the treasures inside the coffin untouched before closing the lid again, thus triggering the ultimate mechanism and releasing the wisp of divine will I left behind.
"So, what kind of help do you want us to provide?" Xiaobai asked.
"My spiritual power is almost exhausted, so I will transform back into human form and become a mortal couple with A-Yao, sharing life and death."
However, without the support of spiritual energy, the isolation array set up outside will soon become ineffective. I don't want anyone to damage our coffin, so please help me remove the lotus stamen from the lotus lamp on the ceiling chandelier.
After an incense stick has burned, the tomb will sink deeper underground, and the passage leading to the tomb will be buried by rocks.
That lotus stamen is a miniature teleportation array. Once you pull out three adjacent lotus stamens, it will teleport you to a safe place where my gift awaits you. Please!
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